APPENDIX VI. 



LANGUAGES OF JOBI ISLAND. 



From a native of Ansus who spoke a little Malay, and througli others conversant 

 with Nufoor — a language well known in JoLi, in which our friend Mr. Jens, 

 the Dutch missionary, was a proficient — I was able to get together a tolerably 

 large vocabulary of the language spoken by the Natawoi, an interior tribe of 

 " Alfuros," among whom one of the Ansus jnen had lived for some time. The 

 greater part of this I was unfortunate enough to lose, and I am thus only able 

 to give a much reduced list, together with a few words of the Ansus language. 

 There are said to be seven tribes of Alfuros in Jobi, and of these the Natawoi 

 and Roba speak the same language, as do also the Papuma and Ai'owaba. Those 

 of the Marau, the Aiomi, and the Ariwawa are said to be distinct. There are 

 thus live languages in the island exclusive of those of the coast dwellers, and all 

 of them, we were told, are sufficiently dissimilar to be incomprehensible to 

 persons of another tribe. 



